It had been a few hours since the assassination attempt, it was already dawn in Madrid, when a gentleman with wavy gray hair, brown eyes, in an imperial robe, approaches me and says:
"I see that you demonstrated a spirit that not even the Caesars of the Classical Era would have had, if it were in the 1st or 2nd century you would be deified like Augustus was in that period. I hope this attack has changed your perception of our allies and enemies. One day you will assume the Roman-tropical throne and then you will see why in 1948 we created an atomic bomb and why we are the only nation on the planet to use nuclear energy instead of hydroelectric, we do not believe in Nuclear Apocalypse nonsense, we must always prioritize order and improvement of our Roman-tropical legions. Now the world knows of your existence and soon your detractors and apologists will appear, newspapers from all over the world will print your face on newsstands from Buenos Aires to Beijing, but I hope he has a good recovery and that he doesn't have any after-effects after this attack."
This gentleman was none other than Emperor Titus IV, a man of strong position, the only head of state who defends the use of nuclear energy as a way to stop Global Warming, for the world nuclear physics community, "the Marcus Aurelius of nuclear energy", for movements like Greenpeace "an autocrat armed with plutonium", it seems to the overwhelming majority of the population supports the use of nuclear energy instead of wind, solar or hydroelectric energy, according to some recollections of the former owner of this body.
Faced with a figure as imposing as Emperor Titus IV, from what I remember of that body, Titus IV humiliated Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in 2006 on NBC and that debate was seen by 600 million people, in the United States and Western Europe, this debate caused countries in Latin America to begin to change their energy matrix and for a long time the nonsense of the hole in the Ozone Layer in the early 2000s and earned him the nickname "the Pliny of the 21st century", since then no one has ever wanted to debate with Titus IV on climate issues again in a serious way without alarmism, but soon a new crazy idea would come in the future but for now everything was calm.
Titus IV, with a more attentive countenance, asked in his imposing voice:
" What's up? You used to talk a lot, and now you're speaking more slowly, even though I've heard reports that you were speaking normally?"
Yeah, it doesn't look like it's going to work very well, so I will speak normally without trying to speak in a slower tone.
"Grandpa, I think this is a secret we should keep for a few weeks until we return to the Tropical Roman Empire."
Titus IV came closer to me and revealed the sniper's photo on his tablet and said:
"According to the Imperial Guard, the sniper's name is Henry Mitchell Stephen, but it appears he is part of a radical group of environmentalists called "The Brotherhood of Nature" and its leader has the codename from "Gaia", the sniper's codename is "Sisyphus", and from what I understand, he has terrorist cells spread throughout Europe and the United States, as if the Islamic State were not enough to carry out terrorist attacks in Europe, now we have discovered environmental terrorists, definitely the Old World is slowly crumbling and the Russians are financing separatist rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk, sooner or later a war will happen again in Europe, it could be in Eastern Europe or it could be bloody civil wars in Western Europe, the world is changing and perhaps the dreams of the generation that was born in the post-WWII is being buried, the 21st century will not be an era of prosperity, it will be a period of transition to something, and Rome must not cling to the formalities of the Cold War."
An interesting insight from Emperor Titus IV into the bitter future of Europe, wars, revolutions, coups d'état, definitely a monarch who is not so attached to the formalities of politicians about the economic and cultural boom that Europe experienced in the post-war period.
Then he placed the tablet on the bench and spoke again:
" This was just the beginning of something bigger, it won't be the Civil Rights March in the southern United States or the Vietnam War, it will be the beginning of something that will break the dream of the Baby Boomers and Imagine It's a song that corroded the entire Boomer mentality, they think borders are static and mock those who fight for their country, no wonder my grandfather Titus III on his deathbed chose me to to be the tropical Roman emperor at the age of 19 that my uncle, Prince Marcus, aged 39, so I trust that the same as my grandfather did to me."
Titus IV runs his hand through my wavy brown hair and leaves the room, but before he does so he waves to me, making the Chi-Ro sign, a symbol of the Christian faith and a sign that recalls Constantine the Great.
Yeah, definitely Titus IV is a great emperor, he has an oratory impeccable, not for nothing, environmental terrorists appeared two decades earlier than in the timeline that was, I don't know what the former owner of this body was like, but I'm going to want him in his vacant moments teach me a little of your wisdom, he is an athlete-intellectual that Plato spoke of, physically strong and a wise man, there are few men who have both functions and when we are talking about It's in the 21st century that things get worse, populist leaders were elected and did almost nothing because of poor management and the establishment itself that destroyed the government from within, if Titus IV existed in my timeline, he would be Napoleon III fused with Aristotle, the political wisdom and philosophical wisdom of someone who is beyond mere everyday politicians of the moment, who for a It was the 21st century until the election of the first Generation Z leader, which would take twenty-five years. Then I will be the emperor of Generation Z, a high-tech monarch who doesn't speak to elders to have your political support, I now cease to be Alessandro Tagliaferri di Sforza, to become Titus Commodus Augustus, I will honor the memory of this young boy who died in this attack and bring the glory of Rome to the 21st century.
Enough with "Imagine" and the Western European and American Boomer dream, it's time for Eastern European post-punk to uppercut their dream, the blood will wake them from their dreams.